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This collection of ground-breaking essays celebrates Mark Ormrod's
wide-ranging influence over several generations of scholars. The
seventeen chapters in this collection focus primarily on the
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and are grouped thematically on
governance and political resistance, culture, religion and
identity.
This collection of ground-breaking essays celebrates Mark Ormrod's
wide-ranging influence over several generations of scholars. The
seventeen chapters in this collection focus primarily on the
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and are grouped thematically on
governance and political resistance, culture, religion and
identity.
Articles showcasing the fruits of the most recent scholarship in
the field of fourteenth-century studies. The wide-ranging studies
collected here reflect the latest concerns of and trends in
fourteenth-century research, including work on politics, the law,
religion, and chronicle writing. The lively (and controversial)
debate around the death of Edward II, and the brief but eventful
career of John of Eltham, earl of Cornwall, receive detailed
treatment, as does the theory and implementation of both the law of
treason in England and high status execution in Ireland. There is
an investigation of the often overlooked, yet ever present, lesser
parish clergy of pre-Black Death England, along with the notable
connections between Roman remains and craft guild piety in
fourteenth-century York.There are also chapters shedding new light
on fourteenth-century chronicles: one examines the St Albans
chronicle through the prism of chivalric culture, another analyses
the importance of the Chester Annals of 1385-8 in the writing
culture of the Midlands. Introduced with this volume is a new
section on "Notes and Documents"; re-examined here is an
often-cited letter from the reign of Richard II and the
problematic, yet crucial, issue of its authorship and dating. James
Bothwell is Lecturer in Later Medieval History at the University of
Leicester; Gwilym Dodd is Associate Professor of Medieval History
at the University of Nottingham Contributors: Paul Dryburgh, Aine
Foley, Christopher Guyol, Andy King, Jessica Knowles, E. Amanda
McVitty, D.A.L. Morgan, Philip Morgan, David Robinson.
Essays on crucial aspects of late medieval history. The essays
collected here, offered by three generations of his friends and
pupils, celebrate the outstanding career of Professor A.J. Pollard
and pay tribute to his scholarship and enduring influence in
furthering our understanding of late medieval England and France.
Drawing inspiration from his own research interests and writing,
which illuminated military, political and social interactions of
the period, they focus on three main themes. The contrasting styles
of governance adopted by English monarchs from Richard II to Henry
VII; the differing responses to civil conflict revealed in a
variety of localities; and the lives of men recruited to fight
overseas during the Hundred Years' War, and beyond the border with
Scotland in later years, are all explored here. These topics take
us across England from the far north to the Channel, to London, the
south-west and the Welsh lordship of Gower, while on the way also
examining how townsmen resisted taxation, the gentry administered
their estates and the western marches were ruled.
Having seized the throne from his cousin Richard II in 1399, Henry
Bolingbroke, the first nobleman to be made king of England since
the twelfth century, faced the remarkable challenge of securing his
power and authority over a kingdom that was divided and in turmoil.
This collection of essays - the first such collection focusing
specifically on the reign of the first Lancastrian king - by some
of the leading historians of late medieval England, takes a fresh
look at the crucial but neglected first years of Henry IV's reign,
examining how Henry met and overcame the challenges which his
usurpation created. Topics covered include a reappraisal of the
events surrounding the revolution of 1399; Henry's relations with
his northern magnates; the Yorkshire rising of 1405; the 'Long
Parliament' of 1406 and the nature and purpose of the king's
council. This collection adds significantly to an understanding of
the character of Henry IV, as well as the circumstances in which he
ruled, and will be essential for anyone with an interest in late
medieval English political history. Dr GWILYM DODD is Lecturer in
History at the University of Nottingham; Dr DOUGLAS BIGGS teaches
at the Department of History at Waldorf College. Contributors: M.
ARVANIGIAN, MICHAEL J. BENNETT, DOUGLAS BIGGS, JOEL BURDEN, GWILYM
DODD, ANTHONY GOODMAN, ANDY KING, CYNTHIA J. NEVILLE, A.J.TUCK,
SIMON K. WALKER.
Essays exploring how England was governed during a tumultuous
period. The twin themes of power and authority in
fourteenth-century England, a century of transition between the
high and late medieval polities, run throughout this volume,
reflecting Professor Given-Wilson's seminal work in the area.
Covering the period between Edward I's final years and the tyranny
of Richard II, the volume encompasses political, social, economic
and administrative history through four major lens: central
governance, aristocratic politics, warfare, and English power
abroad. Topics covered include royal administrative efficiency; the
machinations of government clerks; the relationship between the
crown and market forces; the changing nature of noble titles and
lordship;and ideas of court politics, favouritism and loyalty.
Military policy is also examined, looking at army composition and
definitions of "war" and "rebellion". The book concludes with a
detailed study of treasonous English captainsaround Calais and a
broader examination of Plantagenet ambitions on the European stage.
REMY AMBUHL is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of
Southampton; JAMES BOTHWELL is Lecturer in Later Medieval Historyat
the University of Leicester; LAURA TOMPKINS is Research Manager at
Historic Royal Palaces. Contributors: Andrew Ayton, Michael
Bennett, Wendy R. Childs, Gwilym Dodd, David Green, J.S. Hamilton,
Andy King, Alison McHardy, Mark Ormrod, Michael Prestwich, Bridget
Wells-Furby
Fresh examinations of the activities of Henry V, looking at how his
reputation was achieved. Henry V (1413-22) is widely acclaimed as
the most successful late medieval English king. In his short reign
of nine and a half years, he re-imposed the rule of law, made the
crown solvent, decisively crushed heresy, achieved a momentous
victory at the battle of Agincourt (1415), and negotiated a
remarkably favourable settlement for the English over the French in
the Treaty of Troyes (1420). Above all, he restored the reputation
of the English monarchy andunited the English people behind the
crown following decades of upheaval and political turmoil. But who
was the man behind these achievements? What explains his success?
How did he acquire such a glorious reputation? The ground-breaking
essays contained in this volume provide the first concerted
investigation of these questions in over two decades. Contributions
range broadly across the period of Henry's life, including his
early years as Prince of Wales. They consider how Henry raised the
money to fund his military campaigns and how his subjects responded
to these financial exactions; how he secured royal authority in the
localities and cultivated support within the politicalcommunity;
and how he consolidated his rule in France and earned for himself a
reputation as the archetypal late medieval warrior king. Overall,
the contributions provide new insights and a much better
understanding of how Henryachieved this epithet. GWILYM DODD is an
Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of
Nottingham. Contributors: Christopher Allmand, Mark Arvanigian,
Michael Bennett, Anne Curry, Gwilym Dodd, Maureen Jurkowski, Alison
K. McHardy, Neil Murphy, W. Mark Ormrod, Jenny Stratford, Craig
Taylor.
Fresh examinations of the activities of Henry V, looking at how his
reputation was achieved. Henry V (1413-22) is widely acclaimed as
the most successful late medieval English king. In his short reign
of nine and a half years, he re-imposed the rule of law, made the
crown solvent, decisively crushed heresy, achieved a momentous
victory at the battle of Agincourt (1415), and negotiated a
remarkably favourable settlement for the English over the French in
the Treaty of Troyes (1420). Above all, he restored the reputation
of the English monarchy andunited the English people behind the
crown following decades of upheaval and political turmoil. But who
was the man behind these achievements? What explains his success?
How did he acquire such a glorious reputation? The ground-breaking
essays contained in this volume provide the first concerted
investigation of these questions in over two decades. Contributions
range broadly across the period of Henry's life, including his
early years as Prince of Wales. They consider how Henry raised the
money to fund his military campaigns and how his subjects responded
to these financial exactions; how he secured royal authority in the
localities and cultivated support within the politicalcommunity;
and how he consolidated his rule in France and earned for himself a
reputation as the archetypal late medieval warrior king. Overall,
the contributions provide new insights and a much better
understanding of how Henryachieved this epithet. GWILYM DODD is an
Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of
Nottingham. Contributors: Christopher Allmand, Mark Arvanigian,
Michael Bennett, Anne Curry, Gwilym Dodd, Maureen Jurkowski, Alison
K. McHardy, Neil Murphy, W. Mark Ormrod, Jenny Stratford, Craig
Taylor.
A new review of the most significant issues of Edward II's reign.
Edward II presided over a turbulent and politically charged period
of English history, but to date he has been relatively neglected in
comparison to other fourteenth and fifteenth-century kings. This
book offers a significant re-appraisal of a much maligned monarch
and his historical importance, making use of the latest empirical
research and revisionist theories, and concentrating on people and
personalities, perceptions and expectations, rather than dry
constitutional analysis. Papers consider both the institutional and
the personal facets of Edward II's life and rule: his sexual
reputation, the royal court, the role of the king's household
knights, the nature of law and parliament in the reign, and
England's relations with Ireland and Europe. Contributors: J.S.
HAMILTON, W.M. ORMROD, IAN MORTIMER, MICHAEL PRESTWICH, ALISTAIR
TEBBIT, W.R. CHILDS, PAUL DRYBURGH, ANTHONY MUSSON, GWILYM DODD,
ALISON MARSHALL, MARTYN LAWRENCE, SEYMOUR PHILLIPS.
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The fruits of new research on the politics, society and culture of
England in the fourteenth century. Drawing on a diverse range of
documentary, literary and material evidence, the essays collected
here consider a wide range of important issues for the period.
Political and institutional history is addressed in essays on
Edward II's personal expenditure and the development and workings
of parliament, including an analysis of those neglected
"parliamentarians" of the period, the parliamentary proctors.
Important new insights into the social history of the fourteenth
century are provided by chapters on marriage and the accumulation
of lay estates, the brokerage of royal wardship and the important
and difficult subject of sexual violence towards under-age girls.
Another chapter considers the enormously costly and complex task of
feeding and supplying medieval armies across the "long" fourteenth
century, while two final pieces offer important new insights into
the material culture of the age, focusing in turn on St Stephen's
Chapel, Westminster, and the phenomenon of royal reburial. Richly
textured with personal and local detail, these new studies provide
numerous insights into the lives of great and small in this
fascinating period ofmedieval history. GWILYM DODD is Associate
Professor of Medieval History at the University of Nottingham.
Contributors: Elizabeth Biggs, Anna M. Duch, Bridget Wells-Furby,
Alan Kissane, Ilana Krug, Alison K.McHardy, Seymour Phillips, Laura
Tompkins, Kathryn Warner.
New research into petitions and petitioning in the middle ages,
illuminating aspects of contemporary law and justice. The
mechanics, politics and culture of petitioning in the middle ages
are examined in this innovative collection. In addition to
important and wide-ranging examinations of the ancient world and
the medieval papacy, it focuses particularly on petitions to the
English crown in the later middle ages, drawing on a major
collection of documents made newly accessible to research in the
National Archives. A series of studies explores the political
contexts of petitioning, the broad geographical and social range of
petitioners, and the fascinating "worm's-eye" view of medieval life
that is uniquely offered by petitions themselves; and particular
attention is given to the performative qualities of petitioning and
its place in the culture of royal intercession. With their vivid
new insights into judicial conventions and the legal creativity
spawned by political crisis, these papers provide a closely
integrated assessment of current scholarship and new research on
these most fascinating and revealing of medieval social texts.
CONTRIBUTORS: W. MARK ORMROD, GWILYM DODD, SERENA CONNOLLY, BARBARA
BOMBI, PATRICK ZUTSHI, PAUL BRAND, GUILHEM PEPIN, ANTHONY MUSSON,
SIMON J. HARRIS, SHELAGH A. SNEDDON, DAVID CROOK
New approaches to the political culture of the fourteenth and
fifteenth centuries, considering its complex relation to monarchy
and state. The essays collected here celebrate mark the
distinguished career of Professor W. Mark Ormrod, reflecting the
vibrancy and range of his scholarship on the structures,
personalities and culture of ruling late medieval England.
Encompassing political, administrative, Church and social history,
the volume focusses on three main themes: monarchy, state and
political culture. For the first, it explores Edward III's
reactions to the deaths of his kinfolk and cases of political
defamation across the fourteenth century. The workings of the
"state" are examined through studies of tax and ecclesiastical
records, the Court of Chivalry, fifteenth-century legislation, and
the working practicesof the privy seal clerk, Thomas Hoccleve.
Finally, separate discussions of collegiate statutes and the
household ordinances of Cecily, duchess of York consider the
political culture of regulation and code-making.
An important new contribution to the emerging field of late
medieval supplicatory cultures. Late medieval petitions, providing
unique insights into medieval social and legal history, have
attracted increasing scholarly attention in recent years. This
wide-ranging collection brings two approaches into dialogue with
each other: the study of royal justice and secular petitions
presented to the English crown, and the study of papal justice,
canon law and ecclesiastical petitions (emphasising the
international dimension of petitioning as a legal device exercising
authority across Latin Christendom). In so doing, it crosses the
traditional demarcation lines between secular and ecclesiastical
systems of justice, of particular importance, given the
participation by many litigantsand legislators in both of those
legal spheres. A major focus is the mechanics of petitioning - who
were the intermediaries in this process, and what were the
"strategies of persuasion" they employed? The essays also
re-examine the relationship between petitioners and their advisors,
and the specific legal, rhetorical and linguistic choices they made
in the composition of these texts. In so doing, the volume makes an
important new contribution to theemerging field of late medieval
supplicatory cultures. THOMAS W. SMITH is a Leverhulme Early Career
Fellow at the University of Leeds; HELEN KILLICK is a post-doctoral
researcher at the ICMA Centre, University of Reading.
Petitions are vital sources for our knowledge of life in the middle
ages. A selection is presented here with English summaries, notes,
and introduction. Through the petitions which they addressed to the
crown the people of medieval England speak to us directly: the
human interest stories they reveal are perhaps the nearest thing to
local newspapers which the middle ages have leftus. Petitions were
the subject's last resort when normal channels of law and
government had failed, and offered kings the opportunity to
exercise qualities of generosity, compassion, and sound judgment.
However, despite their importance, they have not hitherto been
recognized as a source for ecclesiastical history, a gap which this
volume rectifies. A selection of over 200 cases shows the religious
of medieval England taking full advantage of this mechanism,
petitioning as landowners, neighbours, citizens, individuals, and
religious orders. The subjects covered range from requests for tax
rebates, and complaints about royal officials, to disputes with
tenants, with townsmen, monastic rivals, and ecclesiastical
superiors. National politics and international warfare are also
represented, as are coastal erosion, and higher education. English
summaries, explanatory notes and an extensive introduction enhance
the reader's appreciation of this rich and remarkable resource. Dr
Gwilym Dodd is Lecturer in History at the University of Nottingham,
where Dr Alison K. McHardy also taught until her retirement.
An investigation into the role of the high-ranking churchman in
this period - who they were, what they did, and how they perceived
themselves. High ecclesiastical office in the Middle Ages
inevitably brought power, wealth and patronage. The essays in this
volume examine how late medieval and Renaissance prelates deployed
the income and influence of their offices, how they understood
their role, and how they were viewed by others. Focusing primarily
on but not exclusively confined to England, this collection
explores the considerable common ground between cardinals, bishops
and monastic superiors.Leading authorities on the late medieval and
sixteenth-century Church analyse the political, cultural and
pastoral activities of high-ranking churchmen, and consider how
episcopal and abbatial expenditure was directed, justifiedand
perceived. Overall, the collection enhances our understanding of
ecclesiastical wealth and power in an era when the concept and role
of the prelate were increasingly contested. Dr Martin Heale is
Senior Lecturer inLate Medieval History, University of Liverpool.
Contributors: Martin Heale, Michael Carter, James G. Clark, Gwilym
Dodd, Felicity Heal, Anne Hudson, Emilia Jamroziak, Cedric Michon,
Elizabeth A. New, Wendy Scase, Benjamin Thompson, C.M. Woolgar
Stories of injustice, feuding, chicanery and natural disasters told
through the words of Lincolnshire people in the Middle Ages. When
the normal channels for righting wrongs or asking favours were
unavailable, the people of medieval England petitioned their kings
- in parliament, council, or chancery. Lincolnshire's inhabitants
took full advantage of these opportunities, and their stories are
told now through their petitions drawn from The National Archives,
edited here. Throughout the county, over three centuries,
Lincolnshire's petitioners sought redress for their wrongs or
requested special favours. Petitions were presented by all sections
of society: men and women, aristocrats, peasants, merchants,
townsmen, bishops, abbots, and other clergy. Their stories
illuminate political turmoil, religious and economic change, and
the influence of geography. They also show vividly how
Lincolnshire's experience was part of the national, and even
international, story. The introduction to this volume sets the
documents within England's administrative, legal, political,
economic and social framework, and is followed by the texts of
almost 200 petitions. These were selected from a much greater
possible number for their interest and variety; and each is
enhanced by extensive notes
The first systematic examination of the expectations people had of
the law in the middle ages. This book represents the first
systematic examination of the expectations people had of the law in
the Middle Ages. Up until now historians have used medieval legal
records to demonstrate the operation of legal rules, the
functioning of legal institutions and the development of the legal
profession, but they have rarely considered the attitudes that
arose as a result of the processes of law. The papers in this
volume investigate the way expectations of the law were generated,
captured, revealed or replayed for posterity in medieval Europe in
jurisprudential reasoning, the activity of charter writing, the
framing of definitions of "liberty", the concern for historical
justifications, and the phraseology of various forms of legislation
and chancery bills. Attitudes and perceptions are also considered
with regard to the active role played by rulers of European states
in law-giving and in the organisation of legal institutions.
Contextualising some of the developments in medieval law, this
volume not only enables generalisations to be made about
expectations of the law, but also highlights the existence of
national and supra-national similarities as well as differences
arising in medieval Europe. Contributors: RICHARD W. KAEUPER, D.
HEIRBAUT, M. KORPIOLA, JUDITH EVERARD, CYNTHIA J. NEVILLE, JULIA C.
CRICK, H. SUMMERSON, G. SEABOURNE, G. DODD, T. HASKETT, ANTHONY
MUSSON, C. STEBBINGS, P. TUCKER
Were the English and the Scots always at loggerheads in the
fourteenth century? The essays here offer a more nuanced picture.
Typical accounts of Anglo-Scottish relations over the whole
fourteenth century tends to present a sustained period of bitter
enmity, described routinely by stock-phrases such as "endemic
warfare", and typified by battles such as Bannockburn (1314),
Neville's Cross (1346) or Otterburn (1388), border-raiding and the
capture of James I of Scotland by English pirates in 1406. However,
as this collection shows, the situation was far more complex.
Drawing together new perspectives from new and leading researchers,
the essays investigate the great complexity of Anglo-Scottish
tensions in this most momentous of centuries and in doing so often
reveal a far more ambivalent and at times evena peaceful and
productive Anglo-Scottish dynamic. The topics treated include
military campaigns and ethos; the development of artillery; the
leading "Disinherited" Anglo-Scot, Edward Balliol; Scots in English
allegiance and BorderSociety; religious patronage; Papal relations;
the effect of dealings with Scotland on England's government and
parliament; identity, ethnicity and otherness; and shared values
and acculturation. Contributors: AMANDA BEAM, MICHAEL BROWN, DAVID
CALDWELL, GWILYM DODD, ANTHONY GOODMAN, ANDY KING, SARAH LAYFIELD,
IAIN MACINNES, RICHARD ORAM, MICHAEL PENMAN, ANDREA RUDDICK, DAVID
SIMPKIN.
Groundbreaking new essays provide a wealth of insight into a
less-explored period of Henry's reign. Investigations of Henry IV's
reign have tended to concentrate on how he seized power, rather
than how he governed. However, the period between 1403 and 1413 was
no less dramatic and challenging for Henry than the initial years
ofhis rule: he faced a series of rebellions, a financial crisis,
deep-seated opposition in parliament, ill-health and a number of
serious dilemmas relating to foreign policy. The essays here
examine, and provide fresh interpretations of, both these
particular aspects, and of broader topics adding to our
understanding and government and society in the period, including
the role of the lower clergy in parliament, and the mechanisms and
scope of royal patronage. Contributors: A.J. POLLARD, MICHAEL
BENNETT, CHRIS GIVEN-WILSON, ANTHONY TUCK, HELEN WATT, MARK
ARVANIGIAN, GWILYM DODD, A.K. MCHARDY, W. MARK ORMROD, DOUGLAS
BIGGS, KATE PARKER
When Richard II began his reign in 1377, aged ten, there was every
chance for success. Yet twenty-one years later, following a series
of revolts and rebellions, the reign ended in deposition and
murder. A conference was held at the Centre for Medieval Studies in
the University of York to mark the 600th anniversary of the
usurpation. Although this book comprises conference papers, they
have been presented in an accessible manner, illustrated with notes
confined to the closing pages. They paint a portrait of the man
Richard, prone to fits of anger and theatrical gesture, his war
with France, his relations with Parliament, his inner citadel' of
Cheshire, his household, his sense of history, his downfall and,
finally, his reputation.
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